Galloway, N.J. – Stockton University’s acclaimed exhibition on the role South Jersey has played in
the civil rights struggle, "A Time for Change," is moving to the Galloway campus.

South Jersey played an important part in the struggle for African-American equality.
Its citizens fought for racial justice and against segregation in the south, marched
on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr., protested on the Atlantic City boardwalk
with the Mississippi Freedom Democrats, and showcased the first Miss Black America
contest.

"A Time for Change," will be open to the public beginning Oct. 4 through Dec. 15 on
the first floor of the Bjork Library. The library is open Monday-Thursday from 8 a.m.
to midnight; Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.; and Sunday, noon
to midnight.

"This project is the culmination of over two years of collaboration between the university
and the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey, and demonstrates
the commitment Stockton has to our community,” said Assistant Provost Michelle McDonald.
“It also addresses the complicated issue of race relations, not only during what
was a critical time in our region's past but also as an essential topic for ongoing
conversation given recent events. I hope it will prompt viewers to consider where
we have come from, and how far we have yet to travel."

The show includes the first Miss Black America pageant in 1968, the origins of Martin
Luther King Day that same year, and racial conflicts in both Camden and Newark as
well as how they fit into the larger context of a national movement.

The exhibition, which was previously at the African American Heritage Museum of Southern
New Jersey in the Arts Garage in Atlantic City, is sponsored by Stockton University
and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

John O'Hara, associate professor of Critical Thinking and First Year Studies at Stockton,
headed the project, working with graduate students.

“The title of this exhibition, 'A Time for Change,' evokes the situations and conditions
of change in the 1960s, but in looking at the 1964 Democratic National Convention
protests, de facto segregation, race and police violence, and urban unrest, it also
evokes the present,” he said. “Many of the moments on which we focus are not so distant
after all, and we invite visitors to reflect on the nature and meaning of civil rights
change."